Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Ally Bank v. Ngouambe
·Minnesota Court of Appeals·US-STATEFiling struckprovisional
The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirms summary judgment for Ally Bank. At the end of the opinion, the court defines fabricated authority, identifies three nonexistent citations and many unsupported legal propositions in Ngouambe’s pro se informal brief, and disregards them when evaluating the merits.
- Court
- Minnesota Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-07-27
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented appellant filed an informal brief with three nonexistent authority citations and many propositions not reasonably attributable to cited sources.
- Outcome
- Filing struck
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-08
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Ally Bank v. Ngouambe”, safelegalai.com/tracker/ally-bank-v-ngouambe (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.